{"id":2079,"date":"2008-12-05T08:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T13:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2079"},"modified":"2008-12-05T08:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T13:57:00","slug":"where-do-we-go-from-here-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2079","title":{"rendered":"Where do we go from here?"},"content":{"rendered":"

“When a government starts trying to cancel dissent or avoid assent is frankly when it’s rapidly losing its moral authority to govern.”<\/em><\/p>\n

-Stephen Harper, 2005<\/div>\n

Off the bat, I’ll say Stephen Harper should have faced the house and Michaelle<\/span> Jean should have flat out refused his request to prorogue. This sets a very dangerous precedent and I can only imagine the reaction<\/a> had Paul Martin done this in December 2005.<\/p>\n

That said, although this was the wrong <\/span>course of action, it does open the door for a peaceful solution to this entire brouhaha. Early indication has the Tories winning the PR war – at least based on the polling data<\/a> that’s out there. And with more money behind them, I can’t see that changing over the next few weeks. So the opposition will probably be looking for an out to all this. At the same time, the threat of a rebel coalition still hangs over this government so I would expect some concessions in the January budget.<\/p>\n

So what would I like to see happen?<\/p>\n

As I’ve said all along, I have a lot of concerns about the long term implications of this coalition<\/a>. So I do think passing a Conservative budget that adopts many of the principles the coalition has been advocating, while not an ideal situation, wouldn’t be a horrible<\/em> result. I really<\/strong> hope that the Liberals and NDP<\/span> vote against it, and that it passes with the support of the evil separatists. If nothing else, that would be an embarrassment<\/span> to Harper and, more importantly, I would find it really <\/span>funny.<\/p>\n

Even if we get past January thanks to a separatist-approved budget, the mood in Ottawa is so bad that I have a hard time seeing this parliament lasting even remotely as long as the last one did. My guess is that we’re in for another election, by June at the latest.<\/p>\n

That’s my prediction – feel free to share yours.<\/p>\n

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What will happen when the house returns?<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Coalition Takes Power<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Election<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Harper minority survives<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Other<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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“When a government starts trying to cancel dissent or avoid assent is frankly when it’s rapidly losing its moral authority to govern.” -Stephen Harper, 2005 Off the bat, I’ll say Stephen Harper should have faced the house and Michaelle Jean should have flat out refused his request to prorogue. This sets a very dangerous precedent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}